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Historical Event on 10/21/1995
Suresh Mehta, Finance Minister in the outgoing Keshubhai Patel ministry, sworn in as the second BJP CM of Gujarat in Gandhinagar, ending the month-long political turmoil.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/12/1998 | Sushma Swaraj is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister in place of Mr. Sahib Singh Verma |
| 9/3/1953 | Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 3/24/1992 | Congress (I) strength goes up by six seats in the Rajya Sabha on account of biennial polls. |
| 4/30/1909 | Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab). |
| 10/20/1998 | Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 11/1/1983 | Rajiv Gandhi, 48, who was chosen to succeed his assassinated mother, was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi today. Across the Jamuna River, in a Sikh slum, evidence was found of the enormous political problems the new Prime Minister faced. The bodies of at least 95 Sikhs were discovered. The Indian army had also been ordered into nine other cities. Religious warfare between Sikhs and Hindus had claimed at least 1,000 lives since Indira Gandhi was assassinated. The security guards who killed her were both Sikhs. US Secretary of State George Shultz, who attended the funeral, assured the new Prime Minister of US interest in a ""strong and stable India."" US-Indian relations had been strained recently because of United States support for Pakistan. Shultz called for a ""renewed positive trend"" in re |
| 12/1/1966 | Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union. |
| 8/4/1906 | Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur. |
| 5/6/2000 | Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta. |
| 4/17/1990 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people. |
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